Mars Was Wet, Studies Say, But Was It Inhabited?

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Mars Was Wet, Studies Say, But Was It Inhabited?

Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
December 8, 2004


Scientists say there is no doubt that abundant water once soaked Mars. Now the big question is whether the red planet ever supported life.
The early signs are promising.

" had a habitable environment that was suitable for some kind of life as we know it on Earth," said Steve Squyres, an astronomy professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and the principal investigator for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission...cont'd

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